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Standards: Straightjacket or Straight Edge?
Standards were not popular with would-be railroad tycoons in the 1880s. A standard set of railroad tracks eliminated some profitable loading and unloading work. Incompatible tracks kept the other guys’ rolling stock on another guy’s tracks. Eventually standards emerged because a couple of tycoons figured out how to make even more money by standardizing. Many industries go through this wide open approach only to find that over time certain methods or designs become part of the furniture of living.
Read MoreMaking Search Results Clearer Requires Some Standards
Smartlogic has made its recent webinar about improving search capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint and FAST ESP available.
Read MoreA New Thesaurus for Online Scholarly Publications
Access Innovations, Inc. and the American Institute of Physics announce a new thesaurus for online scholarly publications that allows automatic indexing of peer-reviewed articles and enhanced online publication search.
Read MoreMicrosoft and Its Taxonomy of Intents
July 19, 2010 — Xiaosin Yin and Sarthak Shah wrote a paper published in April 2010, “Building Taxonomy of Web Search Intents for Name Entity Queries.” We revisited this paper because Yahoo announced that it was considering a service that used popular queries for a new Yahoo news service. You can read a summary of…
Read MoreWhy Use A Taxonomy Management Tool?
With content management systems offering taxonomy features, why use a taxonomy managment tool at all? There are many reasons why a coordinating taxonomy management tool is not only valuable, but necessary. The system should not be short-circuited by the limitations of a content management system which, trying to serve an array of purposes, doesn’t quite match all the functions served by the original parts.
Read MoreTaxonomies and Content Governance
July 5, 2010 — In the 1980s, commercial database producers had an editorial policy. I recall reading the Courier Journal / Data Courier description of the editorial policy for the original ABI/INFORM business database. (Disclosure: Access Innovations was an advisor to the Courier Journal’s commercial database operation.) The idea was that subject matter experts and…
Read MoreFind an Indexer, Find a Job Indexing
At the American Society for Indexing Web site, take a look at what the society offers and explore some of the information on the site.
Read MoreSemantic Taxonomy Induction
“Semantic Taxonomy Induction from Heterogeneous Evidence” became available in 2006. It was one of the first presentations of a method that is apparently becoming increasingly important at a certain large Web search company.
Read MoreLaw Firm Technology Vendor Satisfaction Survey
Law.com’s vendor survey suggests areas in which technology vendors should be working to improve.
Read MoreData Alignment: Good Data Means Better Business
Indexing and tagging not only help users find information and bring about clarity, but are good business practices as well.
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